Manifolding sales-book.



E, K. BOTTLE.

MANIFOLDI NG SALES 800K. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 2]- 1916.

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EDWARD KTRBY BOTTLE, OF JELMIRA, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOE, TO AMERICAN SALEO JBOOK COMPANY, LIMITED, OF TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, A CORPOATION O15 PROVINCE OF ONTARIO, CANADA.

MANTTOLDING' SALES-BOOK,

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Specification of Letters Patent.

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Application filed January 21, 1916. Serial No. 73,439.

To all whom 2'15 may concern."

Be it known that l, EDWARD K. Bo'r'rnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Elmira, in the county of Chemung and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Manifolding Sales- Books, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it.

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Other objects will be in part obvious and in part pointed out hereinafter.

The invention accordingly consists in the features of construction, combination of elements and arrangement of parts which will be exemplified in the construction hereinafter set forth, and the scope of the application of which will be indicated in the following claims.

The accompanying drawing represents in perspective view the invention as embodied in a salesbook of a triplicating character.

' The numeral 1 indicates a support or back for the book. This back may becomposed of straw board, stitf paper, or leather, as preferred. The numeral 2 indicates an original leaf connected, preferably along a weakened line 3,, to a duplicate leaf l. There are a plurality of these sets of original and duplicate leaves connected to the back 1. ln the present embodiment the several sets are superposed on each other and are connected together by stapling one of the ends of the duplicate leaves 4, the duplicate leaves being made a little longer than the original leaves to rovide a stub portion, as at 5, through which the staples 6 extend. Tn this way is formed a pad of connected original and duplicate leaves, and this pad is attached at one end to a member 7 of Manila paper, the other end of the member being fastened in some a propriate manner to the back 1, as at 8, t e member 7 thereby provldmg a hinge connection between the pad and the back. The duplicate leaves 4 are preferably provided with a weakened line 9 immediately adjacent the stub.

The numeral 10 indicates one of a plural-- ity of triplicating leaves, or inter-sheets, these inter-sheets being also connected to the back, as by being joined at one end by staples 11 passing through the back. The position of the joined ends of the triplicatlng sheets is such that the outer triplicating leaf may be readily placed between the outermost original and duplicate leaves, as clearly shown in the drawing, wherein the pad is hinged at one end of the back and the connection of the triplicate leaves with the back is along a line parallel with the hinge of the pad.

The numeral 12 indicates transfer material which,.in the present instance, is comprised in a double-face carbon sheet adapted to be interposed between the triplicate leaf 10 and'one of the other leaves. As shown, it is interposed between the duplicate leaf 4 and the triplicate leaf, and is conveniently connected to the back by having one end thereof fastened in position on the pad by means of the staples 6. Each of the original leaves 2 is provided with transfer ma-- tcrial, as carbon, on its inner face, as indicated at 18, where a corner of the sheet is shown turned over for the purpose of disclosing the carbon inner face.

lnasmuch as one of the original or duplicate leaves of each set is provided with transfer material, a member is provided to be interposed between the sets in the operationof making a record, and, in the present instance, this member comprises a stop sheet 14 which may be conveniently connected to the back 1, and should be sufficiently flexible to fold over the end of the pad into position between two adjacent sets, as shown. It will be observed that in the present embodiment the stop sheet is connected to the back so as to fold on a line parallel to the hinge of the pad, and is, of course, to be of a proper quality to prevent effective transmission of impressionsjtherethrough in the operation of making a record. In it is composed of a relatively thick sheet of Manila paper, which also serves as a smooth rest for the sheets on which the record is made.

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faces immediately adjacent the inner face of the duplicate leaf 4. The outer leaf 10 of the triplicate leaves is disposed between the original and duplicate leaf, with its respective faces immediately adjacent the outer face of the sheet 12 and the inner carbon face of the original leaf 2. The stop sheet is interposed between the lower face of the duplicate sheet 4 and the next set of original and duplicate leaves. tion now being made upon the original leaf will be transferred or copied upon the upper' face of the triplicate leaf or inter-sheet through the instrumentality of the carbon 13, and upon the upper face of the duplicate leaf4 through the instrumentality of the carbon sheet 12. Also it will be noted that the carbon sheet 12 will cause the record or inscription to be copied upon the lower face of the triplicate leaf 10 so that this leaf will receive the copy on both of its faces. In this wise provision is made for deterioration or inefliciency of the carbon transfer material on either the original leaf 2 or the sheet 12. Should the transfer material on either the original leaf or the double face carbon sheet 12 be inetlicient, the results of one will augment the results of the other, so that a readily decipherable copy will be made upon the triplicate sheet on one face or the other; or the two impressions on the triplicate leaf might be viewed together in the case where the triplicate sheet is made of translucent material. such as tissue or translucent parchment. This invention in what is probably its most practical form contemplates the employment of translucent triplicate sheets, although these sheets or leaves might be made of the usual thin but relatively opaque paper, customary for original and duplicate sheets in devices of this nature. The record having been completed, the original and duplicate leaves are removed together by tearing along the weakened line 9, and the pad is elevated, turning around its hinge 8, whereupon the triplicate leaf will assume position beneath the pad and on top of prior triplicate leaves on which the record may have been made. The pad is then returned to position overlying the inscribed triplicate leaves, the end of the original leaf adjacent the stub is grasped by one hand at the point opposite the recess 15 in the edge of the carbon sheet, and pulled upward and back toward the hinge end of the pad, this operation removing the stop sheet 14 from between the sets and permitting the doubleface carbon sheet 12 to lie upon the next duplicate leaf. While holding the original and duplicate leaves separated in this manner, the next succeeding triplicate leaf or inter-sheet is moved into sheet 12 by the original sheet is allowed inter-sheet.

Thereafter complished, among A record or inscrip-' placed in its appropriate position, and the book is then in position for the next record.

The carbon sheet 12 is recessed in its edge, as at 15, adjacent the stub of the pad, this recess exposing the original leaf for grasping, as above referred to.

By the above described construction is acothers, the objects hereinbefore referred to. It is, of course, to be understood that the construction disclosed in the drawing is merely an illustration of one form in which the invention may be embodied, and that this embodiment admits of certain variations without departing from the spirit of the invention.

As many changes could be made in the above construction and many apparently widely different embodiments of this invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

It is also to be understood that the language used in the following claims is intended to cover all of the generic and specific features of the invention herein described, and all statements of the scope of the invention which, as a matter of language, might be said to fall therebetween.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a manifolding salesbook, in combination, a back, superposed sets of original and duplicate leaves connected to said back. a plurality of inter-sheets connected to the back, so that successive inter-sheets may be interposed between the original and duplicate leaves of successive sets, respectively, and a double-face carbon sheet connected to the back and adapted to be interposed between successive inter-sheets and one of the leaves of each set, the other leaf of each set having transfer material on the face adjacent the inter-sheet in position between the leaves.

2. In a manifolding salesbook, in combination, a. back, superposed sets of original and duplicate leaves connected to said back, a plurality of inter-sheets connected to the back, so that successive inter-sheets may be interposed between the original and duplicate leaves of successive sets, a double-face carbon sheet connected to the back and having transfer material on the face adjacent the interposed sets of connected original and duplicate leaves hinged to said back, a plurality of inter-sheets connected to the back on a line parallel with said hinge, so that successive inter-sheets may be interposed be-' tween the original and duplicate leaves of successive sets, and a double-face carbon sheet connected to the pad and adapted tobeinterposed between successive lnter-sheets and one of the leaves of each set, the other leaf of each set having transfer material on the face adjacent the inter-sheet in position between the leaves.

4:. In a manifolding salesbook, in combi- 1L5 nation, a back, superposed original and duplicate leaves connected to the back, an

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inter-sheet connected tothe back and dis: posed between the original leaf and the duplicate leaf, a double-face carbon sheet connected to the back and interposed between said inter-sheet and one of said leaves, said other leaf having transfer material on the face adjacent said inter-sheefnand a sto sheet connected to said back on a line (para lel .to said hinge. and disposable between said sets. i In testimony whereof aflix my signain the presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD KIRBY BOTTLE. Witnesses:

F. L. MARTIN, G. W. EDMUNDS. 

